Machine rebuild time here at Mindscape HQ, and very disappointed to learn that JD did not christen the rebuilt box “Mungo the Computational.” But he did go to the trouble of giving me a Steve Bell penguin for my user image, so all is forgiven. Fortunately, in between relaxing in front of the Windows 7 setup screen, we’ve also shipped a bunch of updates in the latest nightly builds. Here’s what’s new this week.

LightSpeed

Some fixes around ordering across associations

Added support for calculation/aggregation operators over subqueries

Improvements to the LINQ Count() operator over projection subqueries

The designer defaults policy can now override the defaults for generating DataMember attributes on associations

Fix for associations not respecting DependentAttribute if the foreign key was a string

Fix for value objects in derived entities not being materialised if using FindBySql or a stored procedure, and the inheritance model was class table inheritance, and the query was through the base class